"So that´s the reason" said a marveled Kisame. Itachi, for his part, was completely silent. The older Uchiha´s eyes were shadowed by his hair, not wanting to let the others know his feelings. But somehow it was impossible.

"He did all that… because of his children" the weasel scared his lover because of the emotion level of his voice. "A man that was everything… a mother like me… that lost four children" tears felt down his face, making it even scarier than before. "If it were me… I would do the same. I would kill them all" he was surprise because of his similarities with the man he despised. Now that he comprehended his past, he felt nothing but pity. He could be dying, but his family, his daughters, were still by his side. Madara didn´t have anything because of the Shodaime. "I had no idea"

"I think no one did, but we can take some advantage from the situation" said Kazumi while her twin glared at the door, Mangekyo Sharingan on. "The current leader of Akatsuki is none other than Obito Uchiha, who was friends with Kakashi Hatake before he left the village. If Kakashi were to know his friend is still alive and in the wrong path…"

"You are talking as if you want to help Obito" the shark got in.

"Of course! Obito might not be the best of persons now… but his son Rin is great and deserves to have a family. Besides…" her tone got down. "it´s not really Obito´s or Madara´s fault what is happening here. Someone manipulated both them and the people around them so they could end up like that."

"Someone?" Itachi frowned.

"Zetsu" this surprised both elder Akatsuki. "He isn´t what everybody thinks he is. In our time we found out that the black half is an ancient creature that was created by the mother of Rikkudo Sennin, Princess Kaguya…"

"Rikkudo Sennin!" screamed the shark. He was about to do more when a hand on his lips stopped him. The raven sent him a warming glare and then turned his attention again to his daughter, who was fidgeting nervously. "Sorry, kiddo, continue"

"The thing is she was a horrible monster. She used to be adored as a goddess, but then got angry because his chakra was being taken by the humans and she fused with the Shinju to become the origin of all Tailed Beasts, the Juubi" she sighed angrily. "Of course those damn twins of the Bicolored Obelisk have something to do with that too… but that doesn´t really matters now" the blue skinned girl continued. "The thing is that she was defeated and sealed by her sons Hagoromo and Hamura on the moon… but even then she wanted to come back and absorb all the chakra, so she left a third son… or creation of the sort she called…"

"Zetsu" completed Itachi, tightening his fists. "He has been causing pain and more in the shinobi nations just to bring back that bitch of a mother he has…"

"Yes, mom" Kazumi lowered her head. "Because all the pain he went through Uchiha Madara was an easy prey and he took advantage of that. He left the poor man without a single thing in the world other than that sick dream of trapping the entire World in a genjutsu, which would revive Kaguya. And he did the same to Obito… but the thing is, everything have changed now that we are here"

"Not everything" clarified Itachi, coughing a bit. "But mostly, yes. Now we can save more lives"

"Maybe… everything did changed" joined in Tsubaki. "Your sickness… we can get treatment from the best medic nin in the World"

"Not even Tsunade-sama…"

"No, not Tsunade-sama, even if she is a very accomplished healer" the woman smiled in a wicked way. "We need first some things from Orochimaru, the scroll with the Edo Tensei for starting… we can use that opportunity to delay his plans about Uncle Sasuke too… then we will call Uchiha Izuna back from the…"

"Uchiha Izuna?" asked Kisame, not liking that name. His lover told him once about Madara´s little brother and he was by no means a medic or a good person. He was a devil that only loved his nii-san and was willing to kill for keeping the wars going.

"Not the Izuna you are thinking about" quickly corrected the older twin. "Madara named his youngest son in honor of his brother… a terrible mistake, if I can tell. The boy was a little ball of sunshine and a genius in healing ninjutsu" she had sad eyes now "He was the first one to die, because he developed a jutsu that can defeat Death... at least if he reached the place in time"

"I see…" the shark now turned with new hope to see his lover. "You say that maybe this Izuna could find a cure for Itachi´s sickness?"

"If he can´t then no one can" she assured them. "But we need the Edo Tensei Scroll first… and be very careful. He was buried in the same place as one of his brothers, a very dangerous missing nin that killed his own father"

"I wouldn´t call Sorato so dangerous" said the younger Uchiha, sitting down.

"He was!"

"No more than the Twins"

"No one is more dangerous than the Twins"

"Girls, we should hurry. Zetsu have ears and eyes on the walls" the shark looked at the door nervously. "We can provide cover for one of you, only one, that will have to travel to Orochimaru´s lair… alone."

"It´s okay, I will go" offered Kazumi.

"While you do that, I will talk to Obito. Maybe I will be able to convince him that he is doing a mistake" Tsubaki sighed. "I probably will have to reveal information, but it will be worth it if we can convince him to abandon."

"What about Madara?" asked the weasel, not wanting to leave anything to luck. Even if he pitied the man, the former clan head was an incredibly powerful ninja with nothing to lose and everything to gain if the Mugen Tsukuyomi was activated. He definitely counted as someone to worry about.

"We can send his soul to afterlife after we got all this solved" they all nodded and the older twin quickly went for the backdoor. She needed to be quickly, before it was too late for even Izuna to be able to do something about her mother´s lungs. In the middle of the way she started to go between scenarios of what might happen. She knew the snake in questions… well, she heard histories about the old Orochimaru, because the one in her time was a completely different person. She was going to need a distraction… and she knew exactly what to use. It always worked with the white reptilian after all.

"Mitsuki, sorry, but I guess you won´t be class o teammate of Bolt and Sarada anymore."

-In other time-

Indra was walking through the compound, annoyed out of his mind. Asura has been following him all day, asking for them to train together, but the older Ootsutsuki didn´t want. The younger one kept insisting and didn´t leave him alone for hours. That was sooo uncomfortable… but as uncomfortable as it was, he was a little grateful for that too. It was one in the afternoon already and he hasn´t been raped once. When was the last day this happened? He couldn´t remember anymore…

"Come on, nii-san, train with me!"

"No! What don´t you understand?!" the log haired man continued walking, happy to have at least this hours of freedom. Suddenly a young man appeared in front of them and bowed. They were accustomed to it, so the little brother didn´t mind. But Indra did. This boy was one of them. He never touched him himself, but always guarded the room when he was being abused and distracted anyone that wanted to get in. He was a friend of Asura´s too, so it was impossible for his brother to believe him.

"Asura-sama, Hagoromo-sama is looking for you" the younger man nodded and quickly left the place. The older was about to leave too when someone dragged him inside a room. He understood that his free time was over, that without Asura he wasn´t going to be saved. The rapists were inside, many of them smiling. The boy returned the gesture before he closed the door and took his post as the guard.

"Now… let´s have some fun"

Asura, for his part, was quick to finish his business with his father and, rejecting a training session with the man, he went away. He was worried about his brother and what left him so broken… he could remember his words from the night before, what wasn´t going to happen again? What was happening now? He was so deep in thoughts that didn´t realized where he was going and nearly collided with his messenger friend.

"Asura-sama! You scared me!" he said, nervous. Just behind the door at his back were some of his friends raping the Ootsutsuki´s older brother and he was supposed to guard the door, so no one will ever know what they were doing. If he did his work right then they will someday invite him in, to lose his virginity and finally possess that white body that made anyone crazy. But now… Asura was a few centimeters away from ruining everything for him.

"Why did I scare you, Shintani-san?" asked him curiously.

"Eh… for nothing, I just thought you might still be with Hagoromo-sama" laughed nervously the other, not liking the situation. The royal was getting more and more interested in what was behind him as the seconds passed. It was not precisely said teen´s fault, as the other boy was acting somehow strange. "Why don´t you go training? It´s a wonderful day, you will find a lot of men in the grounds and…"

"No, I will train with Indra, he promised me" lied Asura. "Have you seen him anywhere? I wasn´t able to find him and we should really go or the others…"

"No!" he yelled, startling the Sage´s son. He quickly recovered control. "He said to me he was too busy and to apologize to you in his name. He promised he will make it up to you, but now he has some urgent matters to…" the young Ootstutsuki eyed the door Shintani was trying to block with narrowed eyes. He somehow knew that his brother was in there and that he was in danger just by taking one look. "Wait, what…?"

"Shintani-san" he began, making the other piss his pants. "You better go away now, because I swear to God if you have done something to my brother…"

"What could I have done to the powerful…"

"I don´t know" Asura cut the lie. "But I´m not going to stand here and wait for them to finish" he showed the other out of the way, throwing him to the floor, and then opened the door. To the rapists incredulity and amazement, there was Asura Ootsutsuki, standing in the doorway with his eyes wide. Indra didn´t even noticed the arrival, just lying there, eyes fixed on the ceiling. "Nii… Nii-san"

"Asura-sama…"

"Shintani! You idiot, what have you done?!" yelled the leader angrily. But in the Senju ancestor´s mind everything felt into it´s place quickly. Indra, his bad tempered and loner brother, was a rape victim. It explained everything: his difficulty to establish relationships, his mistrust towards everyone, his nightmares, the drugs… God, he probably just had them to dull the physical and mental pain. The dreams must be a consequence of a very bad case of Post-Traumatic stress disorder too.

"What the hell are you doing to my brother?!" screamed the younger brother and used his chakra clothe to blast away all those damn bastard. Then he quickly redressed his nii-san before someone can see, held him bridal style and dashed away. Once in the older Ootsutsuki´s room, the rescuer cleaned up the mess between his legs. There was blood and some fluids he didn´t want to think about. "Poor thing…"

"Hum… where am I?" asked the victim, finally awaked of his trance. He saw his sibling and immediately started freaking out. After a short session of screaming, Indra realized that now everything was in the open. "So you know now, huh? Well, it doesn´t really matters anymore" he bit back his frustration. "Go tell father, he will surely declare you his heir"

"What are you talking about?"

"That´s what you want, no? To be the heir…"

"Indra…"

"Don´t try to reject it, I know you have been dying to take that right away from…"

"Indra! What do you think of me?!" finally exploded Asura, startling his elder brother. "I have never wanted to be clan leader or to take your place, I know you will be better at it than me" this made the Sharingan user´s eyes go wide. "And if I was there for a reason, it was to rescue you from those… those… whatever, I just didn´t want you to get hurt"

"What are you…"

"Indra, I mean it" the younger put his arms around the other, pulling him into a hug. "I want to help you. To protect you and help you heal. I mean it."

"Asura…" there was so much sincerity and love in that hug that Indra could not resist anymore and started crying. He never guessed that help would come in the form of his brother, but it did at last and he was grateful, shedding the tears he kept inside for all those years.

"I mean it, Indra, I will protect you. My word is my bond"

-In another time-

Kazumi entered the lair where the snake kept all his jutsus and quickly searched for the Edo Tensei Scroll. Orochimaru was obsessed with order, so it was easy. She started looking around for the second ingredient needed to complete her and her sister´s plan. The older twin found it in a tank in the lab, but there was too…

"Welcome, little stranger" saluted the Sannin, opening his arms. "May I ask who is visiting me?"

"No one" she answered, putting her fingers delicately in the glass surface of the tank. With the correct pressure it would easily broke and both of them knew it. Orochimaru flinched imperceptibly, he didn´t know what he would do if he lose that too. It was his own little secret, his hearth… or what was left from it. "This… it would have been beautiful, you know? If he continued to grow up"

"I don´t care" she applied pressure. "Don´t do it!"

"So you do care" the girl laughed and crossed her arms. Having the great snake Sannin so nervous was something really amusing. "What´s his name?"

"He is an embryo, he doesn´t…" another poke. "Okay, okay! His name is Mitsuki, satisfied? I will let you keep the scroll you stole if you get out of my way right now and don´t ever appeared in my presence ever again… and don´t talk about my secret to anyone!"

"Come on, this shows me that under all those skins there is a wonderful mother begin to emerge and take care of his baby" the Uchiha smiled even more at the shocked face the snake made. "He must be lucky… well, if you only could set aside your sick dreams and do what you should have done as soon as you knew he was going to come into the world…"

"He doesn´t need to come into this world where everybody dies! Mitsuki will wait… until I find the way to make both of us immortal. Then I will finally have my baby and our lives will be limitless"

"Together forever, eh?" she uncrossed her arms. "Well, that must be ideal… if only you had more time" she made a tiny hole in the glass and the Sannin howled, seeing the clear threat to his child´s life. "You better hurry or it will be no Mitsuki at all."

"You damn…"

"Soon you will understand that I did this for the better… for everyone" she left quickly, while Orochimaru, hurrying up, grabbed his medical kit and quickly returned Mitsuki to the same place he extracted him from a long time ago to preserve his life for years, his womb. A healing jutsu to seal the injury and the procedure was complete. He was pregnant again, expecting his dear child.

"Even if you have to come a little earlier… don´t worry, my light, I will find a way for us to be together… forever."